{"id":1482,"date":"2014-05-03T06:22:27","date_gmt":"2014-05-03T04:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/?p=1482"},"modified":"2016-05-05T07:45:27","modified_gmt":"2016-05-05T05:45:27","slug":"coronation-day-thailand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/1482-coronation-day-thailand","title":{"rendered":"Coronation Day in Thailand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every year on May 5, Thailand is celebrating\u00a0<a href=\"\/eng\/events-thailand\/coronation-day-8\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Coronation Day<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(wan chat-mong-kol in Thai). It is public holiday, banks and administration offices are closed.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"F\u00eate du Couronnement Thailande\" src=\"http:\/\/krabi-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/king_of_thailand.jpg\" alt=\"Jour du Couronnement Thailande\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The coronation of<strong>\u00a0His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej took place on 5 May 1950<\/strong>. And\u00a0every year,\u00a0on May 5, the Thai people express their affection and loyalty to the King.\u00a0Prior to the reign of King Rama IV (King Mongkut), there was no coronation <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/eng\/events-thailand\/index.php\">ceremony in Thailand<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The annual coronation ceremony is currently a three-day affair, starting with a ritual \u201ctham boon\u201d ceremony on May 3 to honor the King\u2019s ancestors.\u00a0On 4 May, the Coronation Ceremonies begin with the proclamation of the Coronation Day read by the Chief of Brahmin priests followed by an evening chanting performed by Buddhist monks. Finally, 5 May is the actual date of the ceremony. Food is offered to monks folloed by the celebration of the Royal Regalia. At noon the Army and Navy fire a 21-gun salute in honour of the king. On this day, His Majesty the King also presents the royal decorations to the people who have made a valuable contribution to the country.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Long Live the King !<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year on May 5, Thailand is celebrating\u00a0Coronation Day\u00a0(wan chat-mong-kol in Thai). It is public<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thailand-news","category-generalities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1482"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2620,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1482\/revisions\/2620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}